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Jurisdiction
Court System
Judicial System
The Judicial Branch
Supreme Court
100
The authority of a court to hear a case for the first time.
What is original jurisdiction?
100
Dual Court System
What are state & federal courts?
100
Only the district courts do this.
What is reach a verdict?
100

District, Circuit, and Supreme.

What are the Federal Courts?

100
How most cases come to the Supreme Court.
What is on appeal?
200
The authority of a court to hear a case on appeal from a lower court.
What is appellate jurisdiction?
200
Civil & Criminal
What are the 2 types of cases?
200
This is what appeals courts (including Supreme) give.
What is a ruling?
200
A goal of the judicial branch

What is  to interpret the law or to settle disputes?

200
The Supreme Court's power to look at any local, state, or federal law to see if it is constiutional.
What is judicial review?
300
These federal courts have original jurisdiction in most cases.
What is the district courts?
300

The number of district courts

What is 94?

300

6th and 7th Amendments

What are the amendments guaranteeing the right to a trial by a jury of one's peers?

300

The reason a case can be appealed.

What is the previous court may have applied the law incorrectly?

300

Stare decisis

What is the "let lower court's ruling stand"?

400

These courts listen to appeals from federal district courts.

What is circuit court or appeal

400

Where a case involving a paternity lawsuit is heard

What is civil court?

400

The term length for federal judges

What is life?

400
This happens when a higher court believes the lower court interpreted the law incorrectly.
What is reverse the ruling?
400

Justices rely on precedent, and interpret the laws and Constitution narrowly.

What is judicial restraint?

500
Cases involving foreign diplomats and disputes between 2 or more states.
What is the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction.
500

When State & Federal court can both hear a case

What is concurrent  (shared) jurisdiction?

500

Federal judges are selected this way

What is appointed (nominated) by the the president and confirmed by the Senate?

500

To create an independent judiciary that was free from the influence of politics 

What is why the Founding Fathers want federal judges to serve life terms? 

500

A case that the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to accept on appeal (1 of 3 options).

What is a case that affects the entire country rather than just one person?

What is a case in which two circuit courts issue conflicting rulings?

What is a case in which a state court invalidates federal law?